Intel, Micron Up the Ante for Flash Memory
Chip makers continue to gear designs toward AI and other demanding cloud workloads that take advantage of datacenter flash storage capacity. To that end, memory specialist Micron Technology Inc. ...Full Article
Google Adds TPUs to ML Engine, Updates Kubernetes
As the amount of machine learning training data soars, so too does demand for new tools that will accelerate the process. With that in mind, Google Cloud announced the ...Full Article
Public vs. Private Blockchains – Which One’s Right for You?
While blockchain is currently one of the most trumpeted technologies, some dismiss it as a fad related to cryptocurrency. The reality, however, is that companies across industries are looking ...Full Article
Intel Extends Support for IoT Vision Edge Apps
In the IoT era unfolding before us, the next frontier is vision applications, applying ML and DL techniques for real-time/near-time analytics of video data from cameras at the edge. ...Full Article
DoD Insists on Single JEDI Cloud Provider
The Defense Department is sticking to its guns on a plan to award a single, huge contract for cloud computing that would support U.S. military operations. In a report ...Full Article
Google Adds More Cloud Features
Google continues to roll out new cloud features as it seeks to differentiate its platform from rivals with new tools and redundancy designed to boost application availability. Separately, Google ...Full Article
HPE Expands Hyperconverged Portfolio with Plexxi Deal
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is broadening its software-defined infrastructure offerings with its acquisition of hyperconverged networking specialist Plexxi. Concurrently, Plexxi released a new version of its networking tool for software-defined ...Full Article
The Good, Bad & Ugly of Public Clouds: Plenty of Each
Anything as immense, impactful and powerful as public cloud computing is bound to be variegated, encompassing the good, the bad and the ugly. As AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM ...Full Article
Intel Increases AI, Chip Investments
Intel Corp.’s venture capital arm unveiled a dozen new investments in startups this week spanning AI, cloud, Internet of Things and semiconductor technologies. Intel Capital announced the new investments ...Full Article
Emerging Advanced Scale Tech Trends Focus of Annual Tabor Conference
At Tabor Communications' annual Advanced Scale Forum (ASF) held this week in Austin, the focus was on enterprise adoption of HPC-class technologies and high performance data analytics (HPDA). It’s ...Full Article